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    using sign language. The Pawnee made houses out of earth, which protected them from the elements. The Pawnee people had a traditional diet plain tribe diet, which consisted of buffalo and vegetable. The most ghastly thing about them is that they sacrificed humans! Daily life, diet, and the practice of human sacrifice are four important aspects to understand the Pawnee People. The Pawnee lived in stationary houses except when they went on buffalo hunts.They lived on the plains and since there were

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    of King Lear some of the major characters had to sacrifice what they loved the most in order to show that they valued it. People sometimes have to make sacrifices in order for people to finally value what they let go. One of the characters that sacrificed something or someone was Cordelia. In the novel of King Lear, Cordelia had to sacrifice the love of his father the one who gave her live in order to show that she valued him. Even though King Lear did not see it that way, Cordelia had a really

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    The fist example is when Carton sacrificed his own recognition for Stryver’s. He has been in Stryver’s shadows for most of his life and has never gotten the credit that he deserved. Carton has even been described as “never being a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal, and that he rendered

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    being sacrificed because the citizens of Oceania had to think the same and act the same or they will be “vaporize” or torture to love big brother. In this quote “the picture had fallen to the floor uncovering the telescreen behind it, now we can see you” (Owell 182-183) explains how the citizens of Oceania can’t say there own thoughts freely because thinking outside the box or beyond will cause people to rebel or act against big brother. In Brave New World self control is being sacrificed. This quote

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    million people and sacrificed them to the gods. This caused the Aztec society to be at the peak of its height. Although they were very successful, the truth behind their history is very dark. Does human sacrifice deserve greater emphasis? We should emphasize the three reasons: the terrible scale of sacrifice, please the gods, and the conquistadors. The first reason for emphasizing human sacrifice is because many people, including children and women were sacrificed to worship the sun god

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    Refugee By Alan Gratz

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    their real dad is stuck in Cuba and mentally ill. So he has to take leadership. “Josef threw his elbow against the glass, and it shattered.”(287). Josef shows leadership by not caring about his elbow, but caring about his family. In addition, Josef sacrificed his arm to save his family. When the Nazis came after them, he was the man of the family and had to take care of them. “When the soldiers said one of us could go free and the other would be taken to a concentration camp, Josef said, ‘take me’.”(315)

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    Darry, and Dally all made sacrifices to better the lives of other people that they cared about. One major character, who made lots of big sacrifices, was Johnny. Johnny sacrificed a lot for the better of others, such as his freedom and innocence by killing Bob in order to stop him from drowning Ponyboy. Johnny even sacrificed his life to go back into the burning church to save some kids. That of which he didn’t even know, who were trapped inside of the church while it was on fire. On page 178 paragraph

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    What Makes A Hero

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    you hear that word? Maybe someone who is strong, big, can fly, is that what comes to mind? There are real heroes who spend their time on people, making it their life to take care of them, save them from danger. The thing that makes a hero, is sacrificed time and their life to this person. First, Dick and other heroes put time and there life into people. Rick does this for his son that is disabled. He was thought to never run, walk, think. In passage one paragraph 10 it says, “Now they’ve done

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    something for someone that you love for their happiness. My personal experience with sacrifice is when i used to play travel softball, and my parent had sacrificed a lot of their time and money for me to be able to do what i like to do. Whether it was making sure I had my uniform paid for, or waking up really early in the morning they still sacrificed their time and money for me. I had a softball tournament almost every weekend, and my parents would wake up early every morning just to make sure I

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    A competition between the Gods caused a huge turmoil between the mortals. From the competition, Paris ended up kidnapping Helen from her husband Menelaus, which started a ten-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans. Menelaus goes to his brother Agamemnon, King of Argos, and Agamemnon gathers an army to fight. For their journey, Agamemnon brings his daughter Iphigenia, so that she can wed Achilles. While traveling, they stop on the coast of Chalkis (in Aulis), which is an island where they had

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